Theories of regional integration typically analyze the regional integration process from the perspective of a single discipline, usually economics. However, such one-dimensional analytical frameworks cannot fully capture the richness and complexity of the inherently multi-dimensional regional...

This paper introduces an alternative index to measure the external sector from a different focus. The indicator, called the “external sector development index” (SXi), is a new analytical tool for studying the external sector behaviour of any country or region. The SXi has four objectives....

This paper is interested to introduce an alternative free trade area model to promote fast economic growth at the least developed countries (LDC's). This new model of free trade area is called “The Nano-Free Trade Territory (NFTT) Model”. The idea is to generate jobs and indirect...

Rapid economic growth and expanding trade of the People's Republic of China is not a purely economic phenomenon but a multidimensional one. This chapter evaluates the prospects of Eastern China (coastal) and Western China (inland) from a multidimensional perspective encompassing the political,...

This paper evaluates the prospect of a possible unification between People's Republic of China and Taiwan from a multidimensional perspective encompassing the political, social, economic and technological dimensions. The idea is to evaluate the possibility of a partial or total reunification...

This paper is interested to present an alternative trade indicator that is called “The Trade Mass (Т)”. The main objective to build the trade mass (Т) is to observe the international trade behavior of any country from a different graphical perspective. Subsequently, the same paper is...

This paper proposes an alternative analytical model to evaluate the trend and stages of openness of any country from a multidimensional perspective. The new trade analytical model is entitled “The Multi-Level Openness Monitoring Model (MOM-Model)”

This paper proposes an alternative trade analytical model to evaluate the trend and stages of trade liberalization of any country from a multidimensional perspective. The new trade analytical model is entitled “The Trade Liberalization Monitoring Model (TLM-Model)”

This paper is interested to evaluate the trade creation and trade diversion effect under the application of multi-level analytical framework. The main idea is to present an alternative group of indicators such as the trade mass (Т), the intra-regional and extra-regional trade trend ratio (R1),...

This paper presents an alternative regional integration approach to join less developed countries and developing countries into a single trade bloc. According to our research the free trade is not enough to generate successful regional integration between less developed countries and developing...